This Just In: Facebook Adds Two New Relationship Statuses

Facebook is getting a whole lot more equal opportunity-happy! They have now added the relationship statuses, "in a civil union" and "in a domestic partnership." I also notice "In an open relationship"—I'd never seen that before.

Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook told The Huffington Post: "This has been a highly requested feature from users…We want to provide options for people to genuinely and authentically reflect their relationships on Facebook."

Also:

"As LGBT people face a patchwork of relationship recognition laws, this gives people more tools to adequately describe their relationship," said Michael Cole-Schwartz, spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign. "Facebook has been a company that has tried to be inclusive of the LGBT community and this just one sign of it."

Cool, huh?

What's your status? Do you make it visible? Do you think it's about time Facebook was more inclusive? Happy Friday!